From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 2 20:03:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA25831 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 20:03:30 -0700 Received: from localhost.lightside.com (user37.lightside.com [198.81.209.37]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA25825 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 20:03:27 -0700 Received: (from jehamby@localhost) by localhost.lightside.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA02264; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 20:03:47 -0700 Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 20:03:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby X-Sender: jehamby@localhost To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: QIC-80 tape driver sucks.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is anyone using the floppy tape driver in FreeBSD for QIC-80 extended length tapes? I have a Colorado Jumbo 350 and the 'ft' program really screws up when I use the DC2120-XL (170MB) tapes. I'm also thinking about upgrading to a T1000 Travan drive which supports up to 400MB (uncompressed) tapes but I'm afraid it will have a similar problem. As soon as I can snag a copy of the ft(1) source as well as FTAPE (the Linux floppy tape driver which DOES work with these tapes) I should be able to hack it into submission. Actually I'd prefer to put floppy tape support entirely in the kernel where it belongs (so I can use 'mt') but I'm afraid I'm not a good enough kernel hacker for that. I'll post up to this list when I've got a patch, but I'd like to know first if anyone has already solved this problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL -------------------------------------------------------------------------------